Determinación de material particulado mediante un balance de materiales en las áreas críticas de la planta Italcol S.A. Funza

Abstract

This internship had as its main purpose, develop a measurement study of particulate matter generated as fugitive emission of byproduct in the critical areas of the plant production of animal feed Italcol - Funza; through the development of a material balance. The balance is to quantify the loss of the particulate material and product by solving equations whose unknowns correspond to information that is not known and it follows as accumulation or loss of material in the system to be evaluated. The company has a number of operational controls based on the structure of an Environmental Management System, currently implemented; however there are shortcomings in the maintenance of equipment as fugitive emissions of particulate matter in some areas of the production plant are presented. A methodology based on the concept of the law of conservation of matter and energy, where if a system us considered closed, the inputs to the system must be equal to outputs and the accumulations or in this case material losses represented in units of wright per unit of time. Such mass balance allowed to project losses as calculated by linear regression on the basis of historical production information, and on the other hand raise loss projections alternately, according to the estimate of sales to ten years. A series of technical recommendations were raised in areas identified as critical operations, which are aimed at reducing fugitive emissions of particulate matter.